Safety-deposit box.



U. BARTELS. SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1914.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

IIIIIIIIIII Inventor Attorney Witnesses:

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH C0.. WASHINGTON, n. c.

CARL BARTELsor HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE MOSLER SAFE COMPANY, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-DEPOSIT BGX.

Application filed January 9, 1914.

To (27! whom. it may concern Be it known that I, CARL Bxn'rizts, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Deposit Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, pertaining to safety-deposit boxes, relates to the construction of such boxes as are placed in the corner of a vault where contiguous ends of boxes are arranged against walls at right angles to each other. For instance, it boxes be arranged against the west and north walls of a vault neither set of boxes can go clear to the corner of the vault, for the reason that the end of the boxes against one of the walls would prevent the opening of the doors of the boxes against the contiguous wall. Therefore it has been quite customary, in such a case as has been assumed, to keep the boxes of the west wall away from the north wall a distance equal to about the depth of the boxes which are against the north wall and, correspondingly, with the boxes which are against the north wall. This system of installing boxes would result in a large amount of waste room in the northwest corner of the vault, sufficient room for a full tier of boxes it they can be gotten at. In an effort to conserve this waste room it was proposed to move the north boxes farther away from the west wall, and the west boxes farther away from the north wall so as to leave between the vertical corners of the two sets of boxes a space wide enough for a suitable door arranged at an angle of fortyfive degrees to the two sets of boxes. This system provided at once for the saving or" the previously wasted room in the corner of the vault and provided corner boxes of extra large capacity, though the angular doors were small. The usual withdrawable inner cases could not be used in these corner boxes owing to the largeness of the boxes and the smallness of the doors, the consequence being that, in getting at the contents of these boxes, a user would be called upon to do some awkward reaching, sometimes in excess of the length of his arm. It was proposed to overcome this difficulty by making the corner-box circular in horizontal crosssection the door being at an angle as in the former case, the floor of the box being a Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

Serial No. 811,268.

turntable to permit of the contents of the box being readily brought to the door. The working of this arrangement would be satisfactory but its defect was that it detracted very largely from the available contents of the box, the three corner spaces outside the circular box being entirely wasted.

In my construction I utilize the full contents of the corner-box with the angular door and I utilize the convenience of the turntable,

My invention will be readily understood from the following description taken in con nection with the accompanying drawing in which Figure l is a horizontal section of a corner-box embodying my invention: Fig. 2 a perspective view of one of the boxes resting upon another: and Fig. 3 a vertical section at the base of one of these corner boxes, shown in conjunction with the upper portion of the corner-box immediately below.

In the drawing :1, indicates a box rectangular in horizontal cross-section to go against the west wall at the northwest corner of the vault in the exemplifying case heretofore assumed: 2, a box to go against the north wall at the northwest corner of the vault, the north end of box 1 being away from the north wall a distance considerably in excess of the depth of box 2, and the western end of box 2 being away from the western all a distance considerably in excess of the depth of box 1: 3, the corner-box filling in the space between the corner ends of boxes 1 and 2, this corner-box having its exposed corner cut ofl? at a horizontal angle of substantially forty-five degrees: 4:, the door of the corner-box, closing the angularly cutoft corner of the box: 5, the floor of the corner-box: 6, a circular opening in this floor, preferably as large as the dimensions of the cornerbox will permit: 7, a support or secondary floor below floor 5, this secondary floor serving, if desired, as the roof of the corner-box next below: 8, a turntable mounted in opening 6 and completing the floor of the corner-box, this turntable filling the opening 6 as closely as is consistent with easy turning of the turntable, the closeness of fit being such as to prevent articles passing down through the space around the periphery of the turntable: 9, a center-bearing for the turntable, carried by the support 7, this center-bearing being preferably of ball-bearing type: 10, ball-bearings cooperating with the turntable and the support 7 and disposed pretty near the periphery of the turntable and designed to prevent the tipping, of the turntable upon its center bearing: and 11, recesses in the upper surface of the turntable, near its periphery, designed to receive the users finger and facilitate the rotating of the turntable.

It will be observed, from Fig. 1, that the entire inner cubical content of the cornerbox becomes available if needed, and that the turntable may serve in bringing to the door-opening, not only such articles as are fully upon it, but also such articles as may be overlying it though partly supported by the fixed corner-portions of the floor. In other words, the turntable may serve either as a complete supporting agent or as a drag ging agent.

In the construction of safety-deposit boxes, whether they be for the plain walls or the corners of the vault, it is customary to make all of the boxes against a given wall as an integral structure or, if the size of the vault door requires it, of smaller structures each containing a group of boxes. Sometimes agroup of boxes will be formed as anintegral horizontal unit and sometimes as an integral vertical unit. So, also, with the corner boxes, for a tier of the cornerboxes may consist of a pile of separate boxes or it may consist of several boxes constructed integrally. Thus, in Fig. 3, the secondary floor 7 of the upper box may rest upon a separate lower box as at 12, if each cornerbox is to be an independent unit, or the vertical walls of a lower box may be integral with the vertical walls of the box above it. as indicated at 13.

l/Iy present invention does not concern itself particularly with the features of construction just referred to, and it is quite immaterial to the invention whether the support 7 for the turntable be a secondary floor in fact or be the roof of a box below, so long as it is a structure giving adequate sup port to the turntable.

I claim 5O 1. A safety-deposit corner-box comprising,\ vertical walls to form a box rectangular in horizontal cross-section with an exposed corner cut away at a horizontal angle, an angularly disposed door to close the cutaway corner of the box, a floor having a circular opening as large as the horizontal dimensions of the box will permit, a turntable filling said opening and completing the floor of the box, and means for supporting the turntable within said opening, combined substantially as set forth.

2. A. safety-deposit corner-box comprising, vertical walls to form a box rectangular in p horizontal cross-section with an exposed cor- 6Q ner cut away at a horizontal angle, an angularly disposed door to close the cutaway corner of the box, a floor having a circular opening as large as the horizontal dimensions of H the box will permit, a turntable filling said opening and completing the floor of the box, bearings below the turntable, and a bearing-support below the turntable, combined substantially as set forth.

CARL BARTELS. lVitnesses:

M. S. BELDEN, G110. JOHNSON.

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